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Bryn Barnard
Author and Illustrator
Dangerous Planet: Natural Disasters That Changed History. Crown
Outbreak: Plagues That Changed History. Crown
Illustrator
Harry Harrison, Galactic Dreams. Tor
Joyce Milton, Gorillas: Gentle Giants of the Forest. Random House
Victoria Crenson, Bay Shore Park: The Death and Life of an Amusement Park.
Freeman
Mary Quattlebaum, In the Beginning. Time-Life
Herman J. Viola, North American Indians. Crown
Lucille Recht Penner, Westward Ho!: The Story of the Pioneers. Random House
Melvin Berger, Don't Believe It!: Fibs and Facts about Animals. Scholastic
Marjorie Cowley, Anooka's Answer. Clarion
Chris Eboch, The Well of Sacrifice. Clarion
Lucille Recht Penner, Big Birds. Random House
Nathan Zimelman, Sold!: A Mothematics Adventure. Charlesbridge
Michelle Knudsen, Colorful Chameleons! Random House
Shirley-Rae Redmond, Tentacles!: Tales of the Giant Squid. Random House
Dylan Nash, Dinosaurs. Intervisual
Andrea von Botefuhr, The Land of Smaerd. KnowWonder
Biography
Bryn Barnard's books for young adults have been called "part Jared
Diamond ... part Stephen Jay Gould" by the New York Times Book Review,
"engrossing" and "pleasantly lurid" by the Wall Street Journal and "the stuff of
nightmares" by the Denver Post. The Christian Science Monitor has called him
"one of the masters of science fiction art."
Bryn has been illustrating for 20 years. He studied art and anthropology at
the University of California, Berkeley and illustration at Art Center College of
Design in Pasadena. He also studied at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang
where he was a member of a Malaysian shadow puppet theater troupe and
worked in a batik factory.
Bryn's clients include National Geographic, NASA, Scientific American, Time
Warner, Disney/Hyperion, Random House, Crown, Scholastic and Houghton
Mifflin. At Children's Hosptial, Seattle he has painted several large
murals for the Melinda French Gates Ambulatory Care Building and the Janet
Sinegal Patient Care Building. His murals were featured on the cover of
HealthCare Design magazine.
He has received honors from the both Society of Illustrators New York and
Los Angeles as well as a Fulbright fellowship and a Crane-Rogers Foundation
fellowship. His book "Dangerous Planet" was listed by the American Library
Association as appropriate reading for children traumatized by Hurricane
Katrina. It was also lauded in "Writing Children's Books for Dummies."
Bryn's book "Outbreak" was chosen as the "cover of the week" by Publisher's
Weekly, was listed as one of the best books of 2006 by the New York Public
Library. It is included in Nancy Pearl's list of best children's books, "Book
Crush".
Bryn lives on an island in the Salish Sea with his wife Rebecca and
two children, Wynn and Parks, plus five ducks, two cats, and a
dog.
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